Cannot Block Phrases on Samsung S8

[Robert Watson]

I am being pestered by spam text messages that do not have a phone number. On my old S4 I could block phrases to stop them, and I have seen numerous posts online that you can also do this with the S8, but on my phone I do not have this option. When I go to message settings the options are "Block numbers" or "Blocked messages". When I select "Block Numbers" there is no option to enter letters and when I select "Blocked messages" it just says no blocked messages. I have Android 9 and the message app version is 10.0.21.65 The software appear to be updated every few weeks and is right up to date.

Any help would be appreciated as I do not want to start looking at third party message apps.

 

[Dannydet]

Switch to Textra as your default messaging app. It has the option to blacklist any sort of sender